Recent content by hoogie

Well folk's, do any of you suffer from the sender unit float catching the baffle inside the petrol tank? Fitted a new sender unit and this one did the same as the old one! any ideas as to prevent it as running out of petrol is a real pain in the ass!

Hi Folks, can anybody tell me if their are any filters between the petrol tank and the pump, other than the sediment bowl on a 109 2.25?

Hi Folks Can anyone tell me if their is any fuel filters between the petrol tank and the fuel pump other than the sediment bowl?

I don't think I'd like to touch it, feel hot and smells hot! Checked timing ok, compression test all read the same even tho they only read 125 instead of 145 but god only knows how old the gauge is! But what I did notice was that the new inline fuel filter is alway empty, manually primed the...

The down pipe, when you put your hand over the end of the exhaust the gasses are very hot! --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.574983,-1.344938

It was, brought a new carb and elec ignition, fitted those, went a bit better but the down pipe gets red hot. Ive used a colourtune to check its mixture and that seems ok. can only think I may have a burnt exhaust valve?

Ah, could be serious then! best I put them new spanners to use and do a compression check along with the timing etc......

Hi folks, is it natural for a series 111 exhaust to get red hot after a couple of miles or is this normal?

Just brought a series 111 and a set of spanners, funny enough I think I'll be using the spanners quite a lot.